i8o 1886. 



them astra3^ The rest went on, making the 

 woods ring with lovely music, fast and steadily 

 through the length of Hanover again, over 

 the Sherborne Road, up East Hill, along the 

 whole length of it, and of Bverlanes, to the 

 Milborne Port Station, where we turned to 

 the right, to the Laycock Hill, and under the 

 railway arch, heading for the kennels ; over that 

 pretty line below Charlton Gorse, keeping above 

 the village, and on to Tennants' Wood, where 

 we had a check. It was about an hour up to 

 this point, and here, or just before, several 

 joined us who had been led astray in Sherborne 

 Park. Here, too, jumping began, and we had 

 plenty of it for the next two hours. From 

 Tennants' Wood the line was soon recovered, 

 first going towards Maperton, but our fox 

 evidently knew nothing of those earths, as he 

 turned right for Gale's Plantation, and on thence 

 for the Red Lion, Cheriton, and here, below the 

 village we had a long and serious check, at the 

 end of an hour and twenty minutes. A wide 

 cast towards the withybed proved successful, for 

 up he jumped in a hedgerow, not far from the 



